Westside draws 95 commuters a day, with 7.3 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers; California has 17%. Westside has 95 jobs for 13 working residents. Hardly any stay in Westside for work; outside it, Fresno is the main destination (15%, 32 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Westside, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 13 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 320 people are in Westside on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Westside’s workers come from
Where Westside clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
82% of the jobs in Westside pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Westside, 2014 → 2024: 4 → 95. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Westside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, about the CA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Westside workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 32 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Westside
About 31% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Westside: questions
What is the poverty rate in Westside?
28.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Westside?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Westside work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fresno (15%, 32 mi), Capitola (8%, 108 mi), Huron (8%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Westside without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Westside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Westside
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.